Monday, January 06, 2014

AND SO ENDS ANOTHER DAY………

NOTICED SOME MORE KELLY-ART IN OUR CACTUS GARDEN THIS MORNING

Another ‘not so much going on day’. Kelly went to Wickenburg for groceries & I continued with my clean-up project.

Sometimes out of curiosity & maybe tinged with a touch of melancholy I’ll look back in our Archives to see where we were & what we were doing a year ago or maybe two or three. This morning I picked January 6th 2012. We were at the Ranch in McNeal Az. & my Aunt Jean was visiting from Sarasota Florida. Earlier that year I had fallen in love with a little 40 acre Ranch nestled between Elfrida & Swiss Helm Mountains. Kelly & I boondocked on the vacant property for a week or so & I spent my time cleaning up the grounds around the house. Spoke to a Real Estate guy but the price was way too high for us. Jean was curious to see the Lazy W Ranch so that’s where we were 2 years ago today & it was the last time we were ever there.

PHEEBS & BEANS & SUPPER IN THE CLASS A DAMON WE HAD AT THE TIME

A COUPLE OTHER FAMILIAR RV BLOG TRAVELERS STOPPED BY THE LAZY W AFTER WE LEFT AS WELL:))

January 6th 2009 found us in Borrego Springs. We attended our one & only Happy Hour campfire ring that day. Don’t mind so much visiting with one couple at a time but a whole bunch of people sitting around in a circle…..um, not so much. That Happy Hour stuff just never caught on with us.

JANUARY 6TH 2008 ALSO FOUND US IN BORREGO SPRINGS CALIFORNIA AS WELL…MISS YOU BEANS……….

And so ends another day………….

KOFA MOUNTAIN SUNRISE

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Three sisters, ages 92, 94 and 96, live in a house together. One night the 96-year-old draws a bath. She puts her foot in and pauses. She yells to the other sisters, 'Was I getting in or out of the bath?' The 94-year-old yells back, 'I don't know. I'll come up and see.' She starts up the stairs and pauses 'Was I going up the stairs or down?

The 92-year-old is sitting at the kitchen table having tea listening to her sisters; she shakes her head and says, 'I sure hope I never get that forgetful, knock on wood.' She then yells,'I'll come up and help both of you as soon as I see who's at the door.'

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10 comments:

Isn't it great that you have your wonderful blog to go back and reminisce?! I love that as well, Al. Yeah, another couple is fun, two couples if I really know them well...and after that I'm outta there!!

I didn't start my blog until 2 years ago... but I've kept a daily journal since the day we bought our rig... January 2001. They (one for each year) are invaluable for all kinds of information... really good if I've added the names of the folks we meet. Bill keeps telling me I should scan them and put them on CDs... I started reading blogs at just the time of your post today and remember that visit... too bad I can't remember where I was at the time ;-)

Love looking back on our Blog too, place we have been and people we have met. Such a great way to look back on our lives.We don't mind a short afternoon Happy Hour with a few friends but can be overwhelming with a large group of people. Much prefer one on one.

Love the fact that we can go back. Our blog started in 2009, but, like Odd Essay, I kept a journal since we began RVing in September of 2003. That sure has helped us find places to stay and what prices they were...(Of course the prices were MUCH cheaper back then). love those pictures of little Cora.

AL'S CAMERA EQUIPMENT

A sometimes asked question readers have about my blog is what kind of a camera do I use. Well I have 8 of them and use them all. Five Nikon DSLR's, two quality Sony point and shoots plus one older Canon point and shoot.

'UPDATE':: July 2017 Thanks to a very generous blog reader I have been able to update my Nikon camera equipment and supplement my camera gear with a couple additional fine Sony cameras as well.I now have a 'donated' Nikon D7200 sporting my new Nikkor 18-300 3.5 zoom lens. Also have picked up a new Nikkor 1.8 primary 35mm lens. In addition I also now have a Sony RX100-3 camera as well as a Sony Exmore Cybershot. I have given my Canon Powershot point and shoot camera to a neighbor.

- In early 2017 I replaced my Nikon D-90 camera with a new D-3400 after the 'auto focus' feature on my aging D-90 quit working. The Nikon D-90 had been my work horse camera sporting a Nikkor 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 lens. I used this camera for most of my landscapes and I now have it set up for night photography where 'auto focus' is not necessary.

-My older faithful and favorite Nikon D-40 finally packed it in during the summer of 2015 and I replaced it with a new Nikon D-3100.

- Previous to my Nikon D-90, most of my photos were taken with my old faithful Nikon D-50 from 2006 to early 2011 whereupon the D-50 suffered a rather gruesome death when it fell off a table onto a cement porch in southeastern Arizona. The 70-300mm lens on the camera survived the fall but the D-50 did not. My Nikkor lenses are interchangable between the D-90 the D-3100 and the D-3400.